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The photos of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry with a young pointy-eared Leonard Nimoy during the filming of the Star Trek pilot episode “The Cage” in 1966.

Roddenberry with Majel Barrett, who played Nurse Chapel, on the set of the original Star Trek pilot episode, “The Cage,” in 1966. The couple would go on to marry in 1969, after the original series was canceled.

Barrett was part of The Next Generation, too -- in ways you saw and some you didn't. She played the mother of Counselor Troi and served as the voice of the Enterprise's computer system.

Roddenberry joins Paul and Linda McCartney on stage during a rehearsal in London for an upcoming concert in the early 1980s.

Pre-TNG: Roddenberry in his office on the Paramount Studios Lot, likely taken during the original-cast Star Trek movies in the early 1980s.

Helmsmen James Doohan (Scotty) and George Takei (Sulu) give Roddenberry a primer on the Enterprise's command console, probably in the late 1980s.

Director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, West Side Story) with Roddenberry and DeForest Kelley, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, seated, on the set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the first of the big-screen series, around 1977-1978.

With The Next Generation crew, circa 1986-89: Front row, left to right, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis; middle row, John de Lancie, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Grace Lee Whitney, Brent Spiner; back row: Gene is second from left, NASA astronomist and author Robert Jastrow is second from right.